tranquility, a photo from Jawa Barat, Java

Photographer's Note

a picture I took not so long ago at Curug Cilember, West Java.

The place itself is a highly commercialized tourist attraction just outside Bogor, West Java. It is located on a hillside, seven consecutive waterfalls in all. One have to hike for about 30 minutes from one spot to the next one. It's a leisure trek though, with paved road and moderate steepness. So it's a family-friendly hike. There's a campsite nearby, but expect a full house on school holidays, especially in some of the nearer waterfalls. As you go higher, the crowds are significantly diminishing.

I took this picture on a tripod with a wide-angle Sigma and Ilford SFX IR filter attached behind the lens. I won't take a risk taking out the filter and attaching it again for compositioning, thus exposing my CCD to water and dust, so I make a composition without looking at the viewfinder at all, hoping that the extreme wide nature of the lens permits me to crop the photo l8r if necessary...

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Bolivar (277) 2004-10-27 0:27

Excelent blanco y negro Sebastian! Una foto romantica, con muchos detalles. Exposicion prolongada tiene mucho efecto.

TheDunno (1030) 2004-10-27 1:55

Excellent nature shot. Exposure is just right.
Although it looks wonderfull in B&W i also wonder how it will look in colour.

avis2avis (4264) 2004-10-27 3:24

A very unusual choice of BW for a composition like this which incidentally is pretty good knowing that it was shot blindly. I am very interested in the lens you used here... the Sigma 15-30 EX DG IF. How expensive is it and what is the max aperture. Could you please let me know.

GRUWEZ (89) 2004-10-27 12:39

I like this one. I am wondering how you managed to keep keep the leaves so sharp during a 22 second exposure. There must have been absolutely no wind that day.

weiphoto (353) 2004-10-27 23:25

I like your composition, with the two sets of waterfalls, and the smoothing out of the water. Nice capture of the leaves in psuedo-IR. Perhaps you could have burned in the leaves to make them a bit darker on the upper part of the pix, as they look washed out. But still a good shot.

alimo3 (6854) 2004-10-28 17:31

Hi Sebastien,
usually i dont like this kind of picture ,But this one is just very beautiful !
great quality of your black and white.
it s a kind of magic ...
Ziiiiiiiiip to my favorite!

Tom

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